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cowan
/ˈkaʊən/
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What does cowan mean?
noun
- A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
- A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
- (slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
More meanings (11)
noun
- Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
- (obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
proper noun
- A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
- A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”)
- A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
- An outer suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
- A town in western Manitoba, Canada.
- A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
- A city in Franklin County, Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkaʊən/
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A Montana cowpuncher named "Fiddle Back" Sinclair was her second, and Robert Ellsworth Cowan became the third.
Wood quotes Cowan in mentioning the case of a child of four, who in two days recovered from a teaspoonful of croton oil taken on a full stomach.